COVID-19: Cardiff Rugby team unable to leave South Africa after suspected Omicron case
Cardiff Rugby can't leave South Africa following two positive COVID cases - one of which is believed to be the new Omicron variation.
The group are presently segregating at their lodging.
They had been because of partake in the United Rugby Championship on South African soil this end of the week, however each of the four of the competition's games were deferred.
The Cardiff Rugby players and those going with them had would have liked to leave Cape Town on Sunday evening subsequent to getting a sanction plane, yet two of the PCR tests they took returned as sure.
"As an outcome of one of these outcomes associated with being Omicron, the whole making a trip party have gotten back to their inn to segregate," the group said in an assertion.
Munster Rugby, one of the opponent groups in the competition, have additionally been kept down in South Africa after the crew's PCR tests showed one sure case.
"In avoiding potential risk and focusing on the wellbeing and prosperity of everybody Munster Rugby won't travel today and will get back to their lodging for a segregation period as an issue of need," the group said in an assertion, adding that they are anticipating further direction from wellbeing authorities.
The group had been making arrangements to take a contract plane home.
South Africa was among a few African nations set on England's red travel list after the development of the Omicron variation.
Non-stop departures from the country to the UK were suspended from early afternoon on Friday until 4am on Sunday, when a necessity for fresh introductions to isolation in inns happened.
Cardiff Rugby said they keep on working with the South African Rugby Union, the Welsh Rugby Union and general wellbeing specialists both at home and abroad to choose the following game-plan.
"The club are additionally proceeding to work with all significant specialists to get the venturing out party's re-visitation of Wales when protected and suitable," the group said.
"Everyone worried in this exceptionally difficult circumstance might want to thank their families, companions, associates and the more extensive rugby family for their many messages of concern and warm words."
The four cycle six apparatuses - Scarlets v Sharks, Cardiff v Lions, Munster v Bulls and Stormers v Zebre Parma - were canceled because of worries about the Omicron variation, which could can possibly dodge resistance developed by inoculation or earlier disease.
Cycle seven apparatuses, because of occur in South Africa one weekend from now, have likewise been required to be postponed.
Zebre's administrator Michele Dalai tweeted an image of his group at the air terminal, affirming that they were set to leave the country.
